SOCI 1251 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Heterosexuality, Heterosexism, Employee Engagement
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Sociologists who study sexuality focus on two areas of research: behavior: Social problems and debates around sexual behavior. How social institutions should handle sexual behavior: identities: Sexual identities, such as being lgbt or straight. Social movements and laws surrounding these identities. Families: young women are more likely that young men to talk to their parents about sexual health, 57% said that they feel uncomfortable talking to their children about sexuality. Schools: sex education varies widely based on school context, 76% teach abstinence as the most effective method; 61% teach about contraceptive efficacy; 35% teach how to correctly use a condom. Media: more than half of teens say that they have used the internet to look up a sexual health issue, unrealistic view of sexuality. There"s mixed results if hookup culture exists: Sexual orientation - the classification of individuals according to their preference for. Identities and definitions emotional-sexual relationships with persons of the same sex or persons of the opposite sex.
